I know people have allot of views on the March tournament. I want to know what do you people think of of forcing the play-in games to be amongst the non automatic quantifiers?(Any conference tournament champ is guaranteed at least a 15 seed. All #16 seeds will be in through the play in games. They could have a fluctuating play in game that basically is as follows:

Average out the two opponents RPI and place the play in game to which they would rank the play in game for. (if one would be a #7 seed while the opponent would be #13 then the play in game would be for the #10 position.)

Add lower division games to RPI.(Division 2,3 and Naia.) (divide the wighted win percentage by half and increase the loss weight by half.) In this way there is is some addition to playing lower divisions but a huge blow if you lose. This will help teams to try and get a better schedule even if it's a 2 for 1 games.(Florida getting 2 home games for 1 away game at Florida Gulf Coast.)

For transition teams in the RPI they could increase the weight of their games after each successful transition year.(a Third year transition team will be worth more then a First year transition team)

The rason for the change is that if a team wins their conference tournament then i believe they deserve to be in the actual tournament not a play in game. I know that they lose the spot light for the lower ranked teams as there are only 4 games played on that day.

The leagues #7 or #8 teams will still make the tournament They will just be regulated into the play in games. Money won't change as the play in games give the same amount of money to the loser as the first round. To ease travel they could have the play in games at the sites of that brackets first round game.

(CBS talking to Turner about handing the Final Four telecasts over to Turner (TBS ? TNT ?))....Surprising, I would think viewership in your oh-so-desirable beer-and-car-buying 25-49 male category is HUGE, and advertising sales for those 3 games must fetch a nice chunk of change !

CBS seems to have no issues showing sports (such as SEC football) on Saturday late afternoon & evening - Monday night it would bump off some crappy sitcoms.... (what is CBS's thinking ?)

Looks like a pattern the NCAA selection committees continue under-valuing the SEC.

The SEC did catch a break with Tennessee having Iowa (lost like 6 of last 7 games), Massachusetts (decent but entirely overrated), and Mercer.

As far as no ACC, there is Virginia as a #1 seed. But in all honesty, before the season started, if you were told that only one ACC school would be in the Sweet 16, would anyone really have said Virginia? I would have easily said 6-7 schools before even considering Virginia. Good for them!

Louisville is definitely not an ACC school yet, but the ACC is a better conference for adding the Cardinals!

Looks like a pattern the NCAA selection committees continue under-valuing the SEC.

Yeah, I said that wrong; needed to proof; meant No ACC with three teams in sweet 16.

The B12, BIG, ACC, and Pac12 did double the SEC's invites. Those conferences and BE were ranked ahead of the SEC in Sagarin ratings; but Sagarin is also weighed heavy with its base start which never really gets factored out. Control for 'reputation' is not complete. Of course one can argue about 'bubble' teams such as NCSU till the cows come home.

PAC12, BIG, and the SEC have 3 remaining each. The B12 and AAC (including Louisville) have 2 each. And of course the ACC and the A10 each have a representative in the sweet 16.

If the argument is that Tennessee, for example, had it easy given their lower seed, then that, in itself, would imply the selection process has flaws. If the number of SEC entries are determined to be appropriately deserved, then it would suggest that the selection process was balanced and the SEC has so far done particularly well with having 100% there at the number 16 level.

It may not be so much the is SEC under-rated (looking at multi-years), but that certain other conferences/schools are over-rated.

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